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Pygmalion Effect Experiment

Description: The Pygmalion Effect, also known as the Rosenthal Effect, is the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon a person, the greater they perform.
In 1965, Rosenthal and Jacobson conducted their experiment in Jacobson’s Oak Elementary School. The experimenters identified to several teachers a handful of students expected to be ‘growth spurters’ based on a pre-administered IQ test. However, the experimenters had designated the students chosen as ‘growth spurters’ by random selection. At the end of the experiment, the students were tested again and the randomly selected students were shown to have increased achievement.
Following the results of the experiment, Rosenthal and Jacobson co-authored Pygmalion in the classroom: Teacher expectation and pupils' intellectual development in 1968.Show more

Introducing ethical concepts related to psychological research, this program discusses the importance of ethics in research and presents an overview of research studies that have raised ethical issues, including research conducted by the Nazis during the Holocaust, Milgram’s obedience study, the Tuskegee studies...

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